{"id":5886,"date":"2017-01-11T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/human-rights-in-the-uk-under-review-a-symposium"},"modified":"2017-01-11T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:10:43","slug":"human-rights-in-the-uk-under-review-a-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/01\/11\/human-rights-in-the-uk-under-review-a-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights in the UK under review: a symposium"},"content":{"rendered":" Tickets available for the upcoming Human Rights in the UK under review symposium&nbsp;\r\n31 January, 6pm - 8pm, QMUL School of Law&nbsp;\r\nBook tickets here&nbsp;\r\nThe Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process is a key way the United Nations (UN) examines and seeks to improve the human rights situations of all the 193 states that are members of the UN. In 2017 the United Kingdom will enter its third UPR examination, and much work has been taking place across the country to gather evidence from civil society on the human rights situation here. This symposium is a timely opportunity to discuss the role of international accountability for human rights and the UK&rsquo;s engagement with the UN&rsquo;s UPR mechanism. Following contributions from speakers providing insights from academia, civil society and policy-making, the floor will be opened up for an interactive discussion session. This symposium is hosted by the QMUL Human Rights Collegium and the British Institute of Human Rights, which r... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/human-rights-in-the-uk-under-review-a-symposium\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tickets available for the upcoming Human Rights in the UK under review symposium&nbsp;<br \/>\n31 January, 6pm &#8211; 8pm, QMUL School of Law&nbsp;<br \/>\nBook tickets here&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process is a key way the United Nations (UN) examines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}